Lunch and Learn on Economic Impacts of Partial Upgrading
PRMIA Calgary and the SAS Institute are hosting a Lunch and Learn on Economic Impacts of Partial Upgrading.
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Agenda Speakers
Date:
February 4, 2019
Time:
Doors open: 11:45 a.m.
Lunch and Learn:
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location:
Suncor Tower
17th Floor
150 6th Ave SW. Calgary
Despite holding the world’s third largest oil reserve, after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, Canada faces challenges to unlock the monetary potential of this reserve, because the value realized for the production in the form of bitumen (or bitumen netback) is not high enough to incent investment in this resource. The key drivers for this low realization of bitumen netback are the cost of production, particularly due to cost of blending; low quality of bitumen, generally a lower grade versus all other grades in the market; and lastly constrained takeaway capacity that is acting effectively as a bottleneck keeping a lid on the amount of resource that can be exploited. This presentation highlights how partial upgrading can in fact address all of these issues by: reducing or eliminating blending requirement in a cost effective way, improving quality of the finished product while reducing the exported volume from western Canada, and effectively releasing the pressure on the takeaway capacity.
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Lunch and Learn
Naomi Esfahani, PhD, Senior Markets Analyst, Supply, Trading & Optimization, Suncor Energy
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